Mosaic

July 16 (Reuters) - Mosaic Co will run its Canadian potash mines at less than 75 percent of capacity collectively for maintenance in the current third quarter, as prices for the crop nutrient slip. The U.S. fertilizer company will curtail production at its Colonsay, Saskatchewan, mine, Chief Financial Officer Larry Stranghoener said on Tuesday, adding that Mosaic may curtail output at other mines, depending on demand. The company also said it expects Canpotex Ltd, the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - NASA unveiled its "global selfie" on Thursday, a mosaic of more than 36,000 pictures uploaded to social media showing people and places around the world in commemoration of Earth Day, the U.S. space agency said. NASA asked people on April 22, Earth Day, to upload pictures tagged with #GlobalSelfie to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Users on every continent and 113 countries or regions - including Antarctica, Yemen and Peru - joined...

To guarantee no shifting, cracking or sinking, you could set walkway stones in mortar on a reinforced concrete slab. But that catapults the project into contractor territory with forms, gravel, concrete, rebar and expensive pallets of cut stone. The ultimate solution works, but so do some DIY alternatives. They work best conforming to these guidelines. One, build on undisturbed soil, whether the stone is supported by concrete, gravel or sand. Use loose dirt to make an even surface, and it will sink,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - NASA unveiled its "global selfie" on Thursday, a mosaic of more than 36,000 pictures uploaded to social media showing people and places around the world in commemoration of Earth Day, the U.S. space agency said. NASA asked people on April 22, Earth Day, to upload pictures tagged with #GlobalSelfie to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Users on every continent and 113 countries or regions - including Antarctica, Yemen and Peru - joined...

It's officially spring. We're deep into pothole season, which, like other holiday seasons, seems to grow longer every year. This pothole season could be the longest yet. Potholes are out of control. The Chicago Department of Transportation said last month that pothole complaints have tripled in the past year; and since New Year's Day alone, the city has filled more than 350,000 potholes. And because, according to CDOT, which assumes there are at least five unreported potholes for each reported pothole,...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Fertilizer producer Mosaic Co cut its forecast for phosphate and potash sales on Tuesday, citing uncertain supply contracts with China and India. The company now expects to sell 1.3 million to 1.4 million tonnes of potash in its fiscal second quarter, down from a previous forecast of 1.6 million to 1.9 million tonnes. Mosaic also now expects to sell 2.9 million to 3.1 million tonnes of phosphate, down from a previous forecast of...

(Reuters) - Mosaic Co Chief Executive Jim Prokopanko has been diagnosed with cancer, but plans to continue in his role, the U.S. fertilizer company said on Thursday. Prokopanko is undergoing chemotherapy and said in a statement that he will work a regular schedule as CEO but limit his travel during the coming months. "While this is a serious matter, the good news is that I'm feeling well and my doctors have informed me that I was diagnosed at an early stage," he said. The...

A large mosaic of tile and glass dominates the facade of the North Sheridan Road building that's home to the Girl Driven Research Project. Inside, the youths who come here on weekends, after school and during the summer also have created mosaics that line the halls. It's a fitting adornment in a place where young women take ideas that may be rough around the edges and figure out if they can be pieced together to form something more substantial and cohesive. ...

"Hero" and "House of a Flying Daggers" helmer Zhang Yimou is in talks to helm the adaptation of Robert Ludlum's " The Parsifal Mosaic " for Universal Pictures . Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer will produce along with Captivate Entertainment's Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner. Imagine Entertainment's Erica Huggins will serve as executive producer. Story follows a retired CIA operative who gets back in the game when he discovers that the woman...

NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 turned lower on Tuesday, erasing earlier gains, after Verizon and Mosaic led a selloff in the telecoms and materials sectors. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 30.03 points or 0.19 percent, to 15,491.94. The S&P 500 declined 1.96 points or 0.12 percent, to 1,683.37. The Nasdaq Composite Index pared its gain, but was up 10.21 points or 0.28 percent, to 3,609.35.

(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Jack Shafer Dec 19 (Reuters) - "Data! Data! Data!" Sherlock Holmes cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. " The sleuth's insatiable hunger for petabytes of data presaged that of the National Security Agency's by a little less than seven decades. Like the NSA, Holmes took a pointillistic view of the truth. Find as many facts as possible, he held, view them from as...

Deerfield-based CF Industries Holdings Inc. 's will sell its phosphate mining and manufacturing business to fellow fertilizer producer Mosiac Co. for $1.2 billion in cash, the companies said Monday. The deal signals CF's increased focus on its core nitrogen fertilizer products and comes after Mosaic has said it was looking to increase its production of phosphate, one of three critical crop nutrients. Shares of CF, the largest U.S. nitrogen producer, were up...

Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. fertilizer company Mosaic Co said on Monday that it will buy back 43.3 million restricted shares from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and the Anne Ray Charitable Trust over the next eight months. Giant agribusiness firm Cargill Inc announced in 2011 plans to split off its 64 percent stake in Mosaic under a series of agreements with Cargill shareholders, including charitable trusts. Restrictions on the trusts and other stockholders...

Gather 'round, children, to learn tales of the medieval darkness that long plagued planet Earth. In that time of the ancients--the primitive epoch prior to the spring of 1993--a few computer geeks frequented a hard-to-use venue called the World Wide Web. They traded academic studies and other materials presented almost entirely as text--letters, numbers, that sort of thing. But the visual elements that today make the Internet useful and entertaining didn't yet exist. There was no way to add visual...

Guggenheim Partners, Peter Guber's Mandalay Entertainment and Mosaic Media Tuesday clinched a deal to buy Dick Clark Productions from RedZone Capital. Financial terms weren't disclosed but a source close to the deal pegged it at $370 million, including the assumption of unspecified debt. The investor group "is comprised of experienced, long-term investors with a deep understanding of the media and entertainment industry and a history of collaboration...

Deerfield-based CF Industries Holdings Inc. 's will sell its phosphate mining and manufacturing business to fellow fertilizer producer Mosiac Co. for $1.2 billion in cash, the companies said Monday. The deal signals CF's increased focus on its core nitrogen fertilizer products and comes after Mosaic has said it was looking to increase its production of phosphate, one of three critical crop nutrients. Shares of CF, the largest U.S. nitrogen producer, were up...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - U.S. fertilizer company Mosaic Co lowered its outlook on Monday for 2013 global potash shipments, citing weaker demand in India and a delay in settling a second-half contract between its export agency Canpotex Ltd and China's Sinofert Holdings Ltd.. Mosaic Chief Financial Officer Larry Stranghoener, speaking to analysts in New York, said the company sees global potash shipments of 54 to 55 million tonnes, down from its previous estimate of 55...